These two shots are on as they are the only ones I managed to get of the greenfinch,
the past two days have been so dismal I have only managed to get shots through the front room window and that also makes the shots darker .

there was about 30 tits on the feeders today I may try and get a video tomorrow

even the sparrows are venturing inside the cage to feed.

the chaffinch was real busy in the shrubs catching whatever grubs came its way,

there are four Dunocks in the front garden they only feed from whatever the tits spill from the feeders the ground

Can not wait for me to put the fork in the ground before its looking to see what the gardener has churned up it tends to go for the bugs and the smaller worms,

peek a boo. I put several big worms on the ground after digging them up , but it did not take one just prefered to scratch about looking for small worms and it ate a few centipedes. I suppose its like us having chicken but this has a hundred legs.

now the squirrels have got rid of all the hazel nuts it comes in the garden looking for the ripe fallen acorns.

Blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus

Spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata

Spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata

Spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata the partner seems to have some kind of grwth around the eyes

This female mute swan is always on her own and always comes to the calm waters of the Severn that runs along Dolerw park.

here she is on take off for a two hundred yard dash up stream where she has a quiet spot for preening herself

preening time usually at eleven, but if the river is fast flowing she goes on the bank.

two blue tits discussing whether to have fat ball or peanuts,

sparrow on the fat ball

shall I keep it for later

eat it while its fresh

this way up

or is it this way

something very interesting in the tree bark

Magpies on the playing fields no matter how much I try this is as close as i can get to the magpie,

This looks like a good place to dive

the river here is quite shaded with the trees but I managed to get a good shot as they came into the sun ray,showing the iridescent green on one of the drakes heads.

then there was two green heads

one diver left

diver no 2.

further up stream there was some kind of ritual going onnot often does one see five drakes and two hens. the drakes are all in mating plumage.

Not so good a light again but I think this is a Redstart, Phoenicurus torquata, I hope it is as its a first again for me,

And its Silhouette. My new website is in the making. there Iwill be putting all the wildlife photos I have taken over the past 3 months, http://www.wildaboutwales.org.uk. will put a link on when the site is up and running ,

Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos and Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
on the severn river near St Mary’s church in Newtown Powys.

and away it goes down stream,

Something else was trying to get in the river today, over the past few months I have had the pleasure of seeing a shopping trolley,park bench,footballs traffic cones a waste paper bin or rather a doggy poo park bin and today this unusual sight of a bicycle looks like the owner missed the water while doing a jump off the dolerw park suspension bridge, I hope the silly **** has broken his neck

it takes two minutes to get to the river from the bridge and the seat had dissapeared

Squrrel collecting acorns, The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).